Gale’s first impulse was to summon a policeman and have the Camera Chap placed under arrest; but he suddenly recollected that, as the city council had not yet passed an amended anticamera law, Hawley had a perfect right under the existing ordinance, with its typographical error, to take snapshots on the streets of Oldham without a license, provided he did not take pictures of the streets. Therefore, Gale gave up the idea of having Hawley arrested. His next impulse was to rush forward, grab the camera out of Hawley’s hands, and crunch it beneath his foot. But he did not carry out this impulse, either. The Camera Chap was muscular, and, as Gale well knew, not wanting in physical courage. Gale thought that an encounter with him might prove painful. “Oh, well, what do I care if he takes my picture?” he muttered philosophically. “Let him go ahead and enjoy himself. I’d give ten dollars, though, to know what his game is. I suppose he intends to publish my phiz in the _Bulletin_, but I’ll be hanged if I can imagine what for.” The next morning Gale eagerly searched the pages of the _Bulletin_ in the expectation of finding his picture there; but there was no sign of it. “Possibly they’re holding it over until to-morrow,” he reflected. But his portrait did not ornament the _Bulletin_ the next day, or for several days following. Gale had just about decided that, after all, he had been mistaken in supposing that the Camera Chap had taken the snapshot for publication, when one morning he saw on the front page of Carroll’s newspaper something which well-nigh paralyzed him. Stretched across the top of the page was the following “scare head”: “The Truth About the _Chronicle_ Explosion.--Daring Conspiracy Laid Bare.--The Innocence of Mr. Frederick Carroll, the People’s Party Candidate for Mayor. Fully Established.--The _Bulletin_ in Possession of Positive Proof That He Is the Victim of Bold Frame-up Engineered by His Desperate Political Enemies.--Real Facts of Case to be Laid Before Grand Jury.” There were other headlines beneath these, and several columns of smaller type were devoted to the details of the conspiracy. In the center of the page was a half-tone portrait. Beneath it, in heavy-faced type, was the following: “This is one of the scoundrels really responsible for the bomb outrage. It was this man who supplied the materials out of which the infernal machine was constructed. By means of the photograph, here reproduced, he has been positively identified by a man from whom he tried to purchase a stick of dynamite, and the jeweler who sold him the cheap alarm clock from the works of which the mechanism of the infernal machine was made. Further details are given elsewhere on this page.” It was the fact that Gale recognized the picture as a very good portrait of himself which caused him to turn pale and utter an exclamation of dismay as he read these startling lines.